Quotes with life-form

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  • Cesare Pavese At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Toni Morrison At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
    Source: Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Bush At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Cate Campbell At the Olympics, you have almost nothing to lose, but at the Olympic trials, you have everything to lose. You have the last four years of your life to lose.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Ben Gibbard At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...
    Source: The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Lord George Byron At twenty three the best of life is over and its bitters double.
    Source: Journal entry of 1811 titled: Four or Five Reasons in Favour of a Change
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Fagerbakke Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
    Bill Fagerbakke
    American actor (1957 - )
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  • Allan Bloom Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • John Berger Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • C. S. Lewis Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bo Bennett Avoiding the phrase "I don't have time...", will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Edmund Burke Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Billy Evans Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Benny Blanco Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • David Starr Jordan Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
    David Starr Jordan
    American educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Alan Alda Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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